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If M is a finite multiset, then a multiset permutation is an ordered arrangement of elements of M in which each element appears a number of times equal exactly to its multiplicity in M. An anagram of a word having some repeated letters is an example of a multiset permutation.
A related example is the multiset of solutions of an algebraic equation. A quadratic equation, for example, has two solutions. However, in some cases they are both the same number. Thus the multiset of solutions of the equation could be {3, 5}, or it could be {4, 4}. In the latter case it has a solution of multiplicity 2.
In the given example, there are 12 = 2(3!) permutations with property P 1, 6 = 3! permutations with property P 2 and no permutations have properties P 3 or P 4 as there are no restrictions for these two elements. The number of permutations satisfying the restrictions is thus: 4! − (12 + 6 + 0 + 0) + (4) = 24 − 18 + 4 = 10.
If, for example, there are two balls and three bins, then the number of ways of placing the balls is (+) = =. The table shows the six possible ways of distributing the two balls, the strings of stars and bars that represent them (with stars indicating balls and bars separating bins from one another), and the subsets that correspond to the strings.
In combinatorics, the twelvefold way is a systematic classification of 12 related enumerative problems concerning two finite sets, which include the classical problems of counting permutations, combinations, multisets, and partitions either of a set or of a number.
In combinatorial mathematics, a Stirling permutation of order k is a permutation of the multiset 1, 1, 2, 2, ..., k, k (with two copies of each value from 1 to k) with the additional property that, for each value i appearing in the permutation, any values between the two copies of i are larger than i. For instance, the 15 Stirling permutations ...
This last example shows that a set that is intuitively "nearly sorted" can still have a quadratic number of inversions. The inversion number is the number of crossings in the arrow diagram of the permutation, [6] the permutation's Kendall tau distance from the identity permutation, and the sum of each of the inversion related vectors defined below.
The permutations of the multiset {,,,, …,,} which have the property that for each k, all the numbers appearing between the two occurrences of k in the permutation are greater than k are counted by the double factorial number ()!!.